The Cassiopeia Plan

Installation with three videoworks
military field chairs, thermo reflective foil, CRT monitor, 1 bag library of radical-social anthropology/philosophy & survivalist books.

The Cassiopeia Plan features three video installation works, two act as instructional videos and the third is a hybrid fiction work.

A tent structure fabricated in thermo reflective foil, houses several military field chairs which require the visitor to construct before being able to take a seat. A monitor in the tent displays a DVD with two instructional videos to choose from, one is a yoga excercise video, the other is a guide to erecting the self-build chair. A small pile of books forms a makeshift libraryfor survivalists, including 'Shelter' the classic book on self-build dwellings and Wilhelm Reich's 'The Function of the Orgasm'. The final video work, which was filmed at Wysing following a public call for participation, draws together moments from the yoga instruction video with Portmanteau horror movie 'Dead of Night' and GK Chesterton's novel The Man who was Thursday. In the 1908 novel, a poet is forced into a conflict between the forces of structure and anarchy, unaware of how intertwined the competing forces are.

Exhibitions
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, 2010

Related event-based work: Dead of Night/Boundary Theory